I am obviously brand new here. I don't believe in a flat earth, but I'm intrigued by the reasoning. This is clearly well-thought-out.

I read the FAQ and followed up with browsing some of the forums and I didn't see my question addressed.

I grew up in a U.S. military family and have seen my fair share of international travel. Looking at the generally agreed upon pole-centric map, I can't figure out where to fit some things.

A flight from New York to London takes 7 hours. Los Angeles to Tokyo (the flight I took most often) averaged 20 hours. Stuff in the northern hemisphere all lines up well with the map. The LA-Tokyo flight on the map looks to be over twice as far as NY-London, so the times line up.

But the "southern hemisphere" on the map gets all wonky. On the map, the distance from Johannesburg, South Africa to Buenos Aires in Argentina looks to be twice as distant as the LA-Tokyo flight, but flying from Buenos Aires to Johannesburg only takes 16 hours, and that's even with a layover in Brazil. If you can manage a direct flight, you can usually cover that distance in 9 or 10 hours.

I get that the flat earth maps are only approximations, but that's a sizable discrepancy. I assume I'm not the first person to ask about this, but there's so much flat earth info available, I found myself a little overwhelmed and never did figure out the answer.

So my question is how does flat earth theory account for the flight times to and from various locations on the earth that take much more (or much less) time in real life than flat earth maps would suggest?